In the Media

Associate Professor of Sustainability and Food Solutions Michael Tlusty coauthored a paper that shows there is considerable potential to increase the sustainability of the Scottish Atlantic salmon industry by strategically managing by-products.

Kristin Uiterwyk, acting director of the Urban Harbors Institute, says some who answered a survey about future use of Padanaram Harbor thought promoting aquaculture operations would help improve the water quality, while others thought it would interfere with recreational uses of the harbor.

UMass Boston is one of the sponsors of the F3 Fish Oil Challenge, which is challenging people to come up with alternatives to fish oil that are sustainable. Associate Professor of Sustainability and Food Solutions Michael Tlusty is one of the judges.

Kristin Uiterwyk, acting director of the Urban Harbors Institute, says water quality, recreational use of the harbor and shoreline, and management of living marine resources were the most important issues identified in a public survey being used to construct Dartmouth's Harbor Management Plan.

Michael Tlusty, an associate professor of sustainability and food solutions in the School for the Environment, says lobsters lack the brain anatomy that we associate with pain sensation, but since crustacean brains are so different from ours, no one can really say for certain what they are feeling.

UMass Boston professors Paul Kirshen and Ellen Douglas were part of a 2016 study that found sea levels could rise by 10 feet by the end of the century, and Boston and nearby communities will experience a higher increase in sea level than other parts of the world.

Mark Borrelli, the director of the CaPE Lab, a collaboration with UMass Boston and the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, says walls won't stop storm flooding on the cape. Borrelli told WBUR-FM that elevation and dune management would be more efficient.

Professor of Climate Adaptation and Sustainable Solutions Lab Academic Director Paul Kirshen and his team are studying if a sea wall in Boston Harbor makes sense, including the potential impacts it could bring to the harbor ecosystem and its impact to the multi-billion dollar shipping industry.